?RCS: $Id: Instruct.U 27 2008-06-14 20:50:12Z rmanfredi $
?RCS:
?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi
?RCS:
?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0.
?RCS:
?RCS: $Log: Instruct.U,v $
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.3 1997/02/28 15:02:55 ram
?RCS: patch61: logname / whoami sequence rewritten to use case
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.2 1995/02/15 14:11:34 ram
?RCS: patch51: author name now appears at the end of the paragraph (WED)
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0.1.1 1995/01/11 15:12:05 ram
?RCS: patch45: now documents the & escape to turn -d on at the read prompt
?RCS:
?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:05:04 ram
?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
?RCS:
?X:
?X: This unit spew out the directions that we want everyone to read. I try to
?X: keep the first "pagefull" much less than a page since they don't know it
?X: isn't going to go shooting off the top of the screen, and we don't want
?X: to panic them yet.
?X:
?MAKE:Instruct: Begin Myread Configdir contains
?MAKE: -pick wipe $@ %<
?T:user needman firsttime
: general instructions
needman=true
firsttime=true
user=`(logname) 2>/dev/null`
case "$user" in
'') user=`whoami 2>&1`;;
esac
if $contains "^$user\$" ../.config/instruct >/dev/null 2>&1; then
firsttime=false
echo " "
rp='Would you like to see the instructions?'
dflt=n
. ./myread
case "$ans" in
[yY]*) ;;
*) needman=false;;
esac
fi
if $needman; then
cat <<EOH
This installation shell script will examine your system and ask you questions
to determine how the <PACKAGENAME> package should be installed. If you get
stuck on a question, you may use a ! shell escape to start a subshell or
execute a command. Many of the questions will have default answers in square
brackets; typing carriage return will give you the default.
On some of the questions which ask for file or directory names you are allowed
to use the ~name construct to specify the login directory belonging to "name",
even if you don't have a shell which knows about that. Questions where this is
allowed will be marked "(~name ok)".
EOH
rp=''
dflt='Type carriage return to continue'
. ./myread
cat <<'EOH'
The prompter used in this script allows you to use shell variables and
backticks in your answers. You may use $1, $2, etc... to refer to the words
in the default answer, as if the default line was a set of arguments given to a
script shell. This means you may also use $* to repeat the whole default line,
so you do not have to re-type everything to add something to the default.
Everytime there is a substitution, you will have to confirm. If there is an
error (e.g. an unmatched backtick), the default answer will remain unchanged
and you will be prompted again.
If you are in a hurry, you may run 'Configure -d'. This will bypass nearly all
the questions and use the computed defaults (or the previous answers if there
was already a config.sh file). Type 'Configure -h' for a list of options.
You may also start interactively and then answer '& -d' at any prompt to turn
on the non-interactive behaviour for the remainder of the execution.
EOH
. ./myread
cat <<EOH
Much effort has been expended to ensure that this shell script will run on any
Unix system. If despite that it blows up on yours, your best bet is to edit
Configure and run it again. If you can't run Configure for some reason,
you'll have to generate a config.sh file by hand. Whatever problems you
have, let me (<MAINTLOC>) know how I blew it.
This installation script affects things in two ways:
1) it may do direct variable substitutions on some of the files included
in this kit.
2) it builds a config.h file for inclusion in C programs. You may edit
any of these files as the need arises after running this script.
If you make a mistake on a question, there is no easy way to back up to it
currently. The easiest thing to do is to edit config.sh and rerun all the SH
files. Configure will offer to let you do this before it runs the SH files.
EOH
?X: In case they played with the prompter...
dflt='Type carriage return to continue'
. ./myread
case "$firsttime" in
true) echo $user >>../.config/instruct;;
esac
fi